The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, a United States federal law enforcement agency, and is responsible for its day-to-day operations
Kash Patel, official FBI portrait
Kash Patel
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Kashyap Pramod "Kash" Patel is an American lawyer serving since 2025 as the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Patel also served as acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Fir
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
…capacity to the director of national intelligence, as the FBI is also part of the United States Intelligence Community. The incumbent FBI director is Kash Patel, who was sworn in on February 21, 2025. The FBI director is appointed by the president and, since 1972, subject to confirmation by the Senate. J. Edgar…
Official portrait, 2025
The Pace University School of Law, where Patel received his Juris Doctor degree (pictured in 2021)
Official portrait of Patel, 2020.
Patel (left) with Christopher C. Miller, the acting secretary of defense, in January 2021